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Labour’s answer to the Tories attack on benefits offers little hope to the rapidly growing numbers trapped in long-term unemployment.
Their plans, revealed this week in …

Jobcentre

The latest unemployment figures from the government show long-term unemployment still affects almost a million and things could get worse in 2013.

workfare real jobs now placard

The latest government statistics for the Work Programme show the extent to which it is failing to solve the mounting unemployment crisis.
Out of 837,000 people …

Right to Work alongside Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a successful and well attended workshop at the Unite the Resistance conference.

Workfare pamphlet cover

As the ConDem government Workfare programme is once again in the news we have produced a 34 page pamphlet to help trade unionists and campaigners explain the case against Workfare.

Right to Work workfare protest McDonalds Oxford Street

DWP expect 5% of unemployed people to find work by themselves. A4E get £46m for helping less than 4% into work.

sanctions regime

On Monday 22nd October the government’s new sanctions regime for the unemployed will come into force. It is a brutal punishment for being unemployed that will leave many people destitute.

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The Tories have announced their plans for even greater attacks on the unemployed and benefit claimants at their annual conference this week.

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